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Burying Nasrallah, Flooding In NC, Veterans and the Election, How to Stress Less

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4.552.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Lebanon prepares to bury Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. In North Carolina, damage from flooding is "widespread and catastrophic," according to Gov. Roy Cooper. The two candidates for vice president are both veterans. How do their campaigns approach vets' issues? And for NPR's new series on stress reduction, we consider the benefits of "positive reappraisal."

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Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah will be buried today.

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Lebanon's prime minister announced three days of morning after Nasrallah was killed by Israeli

0:10.7

airstrikes all while hundreds of thousands of civilians are displaced.

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I'm Leila Falden with Michelle Martin, and this is a first from NPR News.

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In Western North Carolina, more than 30 people are dead after Hurricane Helene set off massive floods.

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Hundreds of people remain stranded in rural communities with no access to roads and precious little food and water.

0:34.0

And for the first time since 1996,

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the Republican and Democratic nominees

0:38.5

for Vice President are both veterans.

0:40.8

We'll hear how Tim Walz and JD Vance say they'd handle health care for men and women

0:44.7

who've served and what's true and not true about their own military records. This message comes from NPR sponsor Organic Valley, a co-op of small organic family farms, like

1:01.3

Stony Pond Farm, where Tyler Webb and his family consider organic family

1:04.1

consider the

1:05.0

consider the earth, the animals, and the community in the stewardship of their farm.

1:10.1

Mm.

1:11.1

This is a lecturer who's wandered up the lane to say hi. She is very curious. She's probably the most curious cow that we have.

1:20.0

Every one of those cows all has their own sort of unique attribute.

1:27.0

They are such peaceful docile creatures, you know, and I say that that's my job is to wake up in this beautiful place every day and wander around and try to figure out how to make it better.

1:40.0

Better for my cows, better for the land, better for the land,

1:43.0

better for the community, the overall ecology.

1:45.7

And it's that stewardship which evolves

1:49.0

from that patient observation, I think.

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